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on every other consideration, is of great 

 advantage with respect to breadth; for 

 then, even the mid-day lights and shadows, 

 from their horizontal direction, are so strik- 

 ing, and the parts so finely illuminated, 

 and yet so connected and filled up by 

 them, that I have many times forgotten 

 the nakedness of the trees, from admira- 

 tion of the general masses. Jn summer, 

 the exact reverse is as often the case; the 

 rich cloathing of the parts makes a faint 

 impression, from the vague and general 

 glare of light without shadow. 



